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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

Three months ago, we adopted Jedi who was promptly renamed Ziggy. Here he is, on the day we adopted him, while we were filling out the paperwork. We were told he was probably two years old1, and his slight limp was probably from his horrible maltreatment or a previous injury. He was treated incredibly badly, […]

Posted on 2015/05/29 by dominic in personal | Tagged dog rescue, pooch, ziggy | 1 Comment

The only winning move is not to play

Like many, many others, I’ve been following the events in Ferguson, Missouri with a mixture of fascination and horror. After a couple of nights of reading reports of post-curfew tear gas, armed protesters, tanks, and automatic weapons, it strikes me that escalation on either side of this dispute is a strategy that can only end in […]

Posted on 2014/08/18 by dominic in personal | Tagged ferguson, politics, wargames | Leave a comment

s/GOOG/TWTR/

A little over three years ago1, I left LucasArts to join Google. I have now left Google to join Twitter. I have an amazing opportunity to join the Mesos team at a point in their development that is ideal: The technology is built, the company has invested heavily in it, but there’s still a huge amount to […]

Posted on 2014/02/05 by dominic in personal | Tagged google, job, twitter | Leave a comment

Hole hearted

Rodney Jones is a jazz guitarist who has played with some of the greats, including James Brown and Dizzy Gillespie. This may seem largely irrelevant but it’ll make sense later. I rarely play the guitar around those outside my immediate family. I’ve been playing for over 20 years but I have no sense if I’m any […]

Posted on 2013/09/18 by dominic in personal | Tagged bragging, guitar | Leave a comment

Star Trekkin’

My review of Star Trek Into Darkness can be succinctly written: As a film, I enjoyed it. As a Star Trek film, I didn’t. There are two specific reasons why it didn’t work for me as a Star Trek movie. First, after the first J J Abrams movie, I was encouraged that they’d found a way to […]

Posted on 2013/05/25 by dominic in personal | Tagged reviews, star trek | Leave a comment

Dancin’ Fool

Every night, Mirto and I make a point of dancing with the #geekling 1. A couple of weeks ago, it was Rage Against the Machine mosh night, a few nights ago, it was slow dancing to Nina Simone, and tonight it was retro night with Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors and MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This. I learned a few things: […]

Posted on 2013/02/18 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

Don’t fuck it up

Four years ago, Mirto and I arrived in the US from Singapore. When we boarded the plane at Changi International airport we didn’t know who would be president when we landed. When we arrived at San Francisco International airport, the ebullience and jubilation made it clear that a horrible mistake had been avoided. I’d like […]

Posted on 2012/11/06 by dominic in personal | Tagged election | 1 Comment

Living in a Box

On a recent trip to IKEA a few sweet toys were purchased along with baskets to put them in. Guess which was the most popular.

Posted on 2012/09/23 by dominic in personal | Tagged geekling, parenting | Leave a comment

Castle in the cloud

As I get to grips with thinking about the future with the weighty responsibility of another actual person depending on me for survival and development, it’s tempting to attempt to recreate my childhood for her. My childhood was pretty special, as it happens. I grew up on a small island, with close friends living nearby, […]

Posted on 2012/05/16 by dominic in personal | Tagged parenting | Leave a comment

Sweet Child O’ Mine

Today is the last day I won’t be a parent. I feel like I should write something about this, about how it feels, but I’m not sure I can even begin to collect and analyse all the busyness in my head. So where to start? Firstly, I thought I’d be anxious, but I’m not particularly. […]

Posted on 2012/03/14 by dominic in personal | Tagged parenting | 1 Comment